It's a Celebration!
In seven days, I will be co-hosting a semi-annual tradition among the acutaries at work. Every six months, the people who earn an actuarial designation throw a party for the actuarial community at work. Since I will be getting my FSA in March, I will be one of the hosts.
This party is no small shindig. There are six of throwing the party. All FSAs pay two shares and all ASAs pay one share, so I am paying for just over 20% of the party. We have reserved a banquet hall and will serve hot snacks, a small dinner (party subs), and unlimited drinks to all attendees. We are expecting about 75 adults and 10-15 children. We are also hiring a DJ and looking at other entertainment options for the children. The party will probably cost around $5000, so my share will be about $1000. I am super excited for the party!
Another tradition of the party is the Powerpoint invitation slide show sent to all the actuaries at work. A standard has been set with past parties to put together a very entertaining slide show that includes funny text and exceptional use of Photoshop. It's definitiely an ego thing now to try and top or compare favorably with past slide shows, so I spent a lot of time this past week working with a couple others throwing the party to put this together. One of the guys was an expert with Photoshop and did some great work with our pictures.
What was the theme you ask? Well, we did a spoof on Mother Goose nursery rhymes. It's standard to mock topics from the actuarial exams in the invite (since most of the stuff we were tested on never comes up again during our career), so the nursery rhymes are a little dorky, but some of them are quite funny. We changed some common rhymes around and included a picture with each one.
We sent the slide show out to the actuarial community this afternoon and received rave reviews. It might not be the best one in recent years, but it was definitely one of the two or three best (in my biased opinion). This presentation was much better than the one we put together for my ASA party back in 2003. If you want to see a copy of what we put together, let me know and I will e-mail it to you. If you don't want to see the slide show, it's your loss!
This party is no small shindig. There are six of throwing the party. All FSAs pay two shares and all ASAs pay one share, so I am paying for just over 20% of the party. We have reserved a banquet hall and will serve hot snacks, a small dinner (party subs), and unlimited drinks to all attendees. We are expecting about 75 adults and 10-15 children. We are also hiring a DJ and looking at other entertainment options for the children. The party will probably cost around $5000, so my share will be about $1000. I am super excited for the party!
Another tradition of the party is the Powerpoint invitation slide show sent to all the actuaries at work. A standard has been set with past parties to put together a very entertaining slide show that includes funny text and exceptional use of Photoshop. It's definitiely an ego thing now to try and top or compare favorably with past slide shows, so I spent a lot of time this past week working with a couple others throwing the party to put this together. One of the guys was an expert with Photoshop and did some great work with our pictures.
What was the theme you ask? Well, we did a spoof on Mother Goose nursery rhymes. It's standard to mock topics from the actuarial exams in the invite (since most of the stuff we were tested on never comes up again during our career), so the nursery rhymes are a little dorky, but some of them are quite funny. We changed some common rhymes around and included a picture with each one.
We sent the slide show out to the actuarial community this afternoon and received rave reviews. It might not be the best one in recent years, but it was definitely one of the two or three best (in my biased opinion). This presentation was much better than the one we put together for my ASA party back in 2003. If you want to see a copy of what we put together, let me know and I will e-mail it to you. If you don't want to see the slide show, it's your loss!
posted by GaryGinew at 5:34 PM
1 Comments:
Hey Ginew! I'd love to see a copy! Send me an email and I'll check it out.
I'm def. looking forward to some good stories about your lavish shin-dig! You'll have to let me know how well it goes. Good luck with all your plans!
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